In the camp, several military officers from the capital stood in the center of the camp with their dawdling soldiers, looking at Pan Feng and Xing Daorong, and began to pray silently.
I hope I won't be selected for this expedition.
Although the military pay is no longer owed, with only a few taels of silver a month, why risk your life?
Why not just live a life of leisure in the capital instead of going to the battlefield to die?
Meanwhile, the personal guards under Pan Feng and Xing Daorong stood ramrod straight.
A few months ago, they were incorporated into the auxiliary troops of Tai'an City and enjoyed the same treatment as those in Tai'an City.
He trained with Zhao Hu and the others every day and studied academic subjects together in the evenings.
Although it's only been six months, they've been trained quite a bit.
At least they've shed their security guard image and have acquired a bit of the demeanor of a regular soldier.
Li Chang'an looked down on the army in the capital and had no interest in training them.
A group of seasoned veterans, who had long ago ingrained the words "cheating and slyness" into their very bones.
If it weren't for the current shortage of manpower to train his troops, Li Chang'an would have already wanted to let them retire from the military.
Just looking at them is annoying; if I put them in my unit, they might corrupt others.
Although Pan Feng and Xing Daorong's men were incompetent, they were still veterans who had fought their way out of the border, so they still had some fighting spirit.
These people in the capital don't even know where the border is, or what the enemy looks like.
They're good at bullying ordinary people, but when it comes to fighting, they're definitely not even as good as the people on the border.
Pan Feng stood on the high platform, looking at his soldiers and then at the people in the military camp, and felt that they were worlds apart.
Although his men had only followed the prince for a few months, they seemed to have undergone a complete transformation.
Each one of them stood tall and proud, exuding an air of confidence and dignity.
Even knowing they were going to war, no one was afraid.
Although they couldn't compare to Zhao Hu's men, they were worlds apart from the useless soldiers in the military camp.
Moreover, this was after Li Chang'an laid off a large portion of the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled; otherwise, these people wouldn't even be able to line up properly.
After much deliberation, Pan Feng selected only a few thousand strong and robust young men who had just joined the army.
There's still a shortfall of nearly 40,000, and he can't find any more no matter how hard he tries.
Xing Daorong shook his head and said, "Tsk tsk tsk, this group of people is really hard to choose from. They're like a bunch of useless trash."
"If we were elected, it would be a disgrace, and we might even break the rules and regulations, which would implicate us two brothers and get punished."
Pan Feng thought about it and agreed, so he only selected a few thousand people to prepare to report back to the prince.
Let's see if we can select some men from Tai'an City to serve under him, otherwise there's really no other way.
The main reason is that the remaining people don't seem to be of much use.
Having seen the soldiers under Li Chang'an's command, they no longer looked down on the people in the capital.
I used to think that the soldiers of the Beijing Garrison were all elite, but now they look like a bunch of beggars.
When they returned, they saw Xiong Er and Zhang San, the two main generals, kneeling at the entrance of the camp with several battalion commanders.
Li Chang'an, on the other hand, was reprimanding them.
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